of mannes wytte, and so at the lest wyse to kepe vs
frome ydlenes, and yet as thoghe we had nothynge to
passe ye tyme with all, we be in a maner made apon
foles, apon dyesse, and crafty iogeleres. Me.
You saye very truthe. Ogy. There be many men
of no smale grauytye, that wyll say thys kynd of stones,
if that you put it in vynagre, it wyll swyme, thoge
you wold thruste it downe with violence. Me.
Wherfore do thay sette a tode byfore our lady? Ogy.
Bycause she hathe ouercome, trode vnderfote, abolyshyd
all maner of vnclennes, poyso, pryde, couytousnes,
and all wordly affectyones that raygne in man. Me.
Woo be to vs, that hathe so many todes in owre hartes.
|| Ogygy. We shal be purgyd frome thaym all,
if we dylygetly worshipe owre lady. Me. How
wold she be worshipyd. Ogy. The most acceptable
honor, that thou canste doo to her is to folowe her
lyuynge. Me. You haue told all at ones.
But this is hard to brynge to pass. Ogy. You
saye truthe, but it is an excellente thynge. Me.
But go to, and tell on as you begane. Ogy. After
thys to come to owre purpose, the Supprioure shewyed
to me ymages of gold and syluer, and sayd, thes be
pure gold, and thes be syluer and gyltyd, he told
the pryce of euery one of thaym, and the patrone.
Whan I wonderyd, reioycynge of so maruelous ryches,
as was abowt our lady, than saythe the Sexte bycause
I percayue, that you be so vertuously affecte, I suppose
it greate wronge, to hyde any thynge frome you, but
now you shall see the pryuytyes || D ij.|| of our
lady, and than he pullyd owt of the aultre a whole
world of maruayles, if I shuld tell you of all, a
whole daye wold nat suffyse, & so thys pylgremage
chansyd to me most happy. I was fyllyd euyn full
withe goodly syghts, and I brynge also with me this
wonderous relyque, whiche was a toke gyuen to me froe
our lady. Me. Haue you nat it prouyd, what
valewre your woden relyque is on? Ogy. Yis,
that I haue, in a certayne Inne within thys thre dayes,
ther I fownde a certayne man that was bestraght of
hys wytte, whiche shuld haue be bownde, but thys woden
relyque was put vnder hys nekke pryuyly, wherapon
he gad a sadde and sownd sleape, but in the mornynge
he was hole and sownde as euer he was before. Me.
It was nat the phrenysy, but the dronke dropsye, sleape
ys wontyd to be a good medicyne for ye dysease. ||
Ogy. Wha you be dysposyd to skoffe Menedemus,
yt ys best that you gette a nother maner of gestynge
stokke than thys, for I tell you it is nother good
nor holsome, to bowrde so with sayntes. For thys
same ma dyd say, that a woman dyd apere to hym, in
hys sleape, after a maruelouse fashion, which shold
gyue hym a cuppe to drynke apon. Mene. I suppose
it was Elleboru. [Elleborum wyll restore a
man to hys senses that hathe lost the.] Ogy.
That is vncertayne, but I kno well ye ma was well
broght into hys mynde ayen. Me. Dyd you other
come or goo by Sante Thomas of Cantorbury that good


